Backup software (was: EX8200's)

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_bg-tc-ppp1439.monmouth.com>
Date: Thu Jul 12 07:30:31 2001

> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> > It's possible that current third-party offerings are better than the
> > early stuff I've tried out, but my experience with backup software
> > has been pretty
>
> Of course, the opposite applies as well. Does anyone know why newer
> UNIX dump software tends to no longer support some form of
> verification of the data dumped to tapes? Some classic dump software
> once supported this, such as that found with SunOS 4.1.1.

I've never seen the dump program offer verification passes on SunOS...
some reference points would be nice.

It may have been a SunOS enhancement.

The closest thing on FreeBSD 4.3 is restore -N which restores without
writing anything to disk for tape verification.

Bill

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